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Helsing posted:Since you were already willing to support racist torture apologist Sam Harris you and your girlfriend sound perfect for each other. Tickets to that event cost hundreds of dollars, and the organizer is a tentacle of the Koch brothers’ dark money network.
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Ccs posted:When I went to set up an investment account at TD earlier this year the guy was talking about how so many people were putting their entire nest egg in weed stocks. Total insanity, but I guess it paid off for them. I wanna smack every person who talks about weed stocks in the head. Not that they aren't gonna/have made money (they probably are), but 95% of the time the conversation feels like financial equivalent of a 16 year old telling you about about how amazing the Hunter S Thompson/Bukowski/Nietzche/Palhulniak book they just read was. Kill me.
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CRISPYBABY posted:I wanna smack every person who talks about weed stocks in the head. Not that they aren't gonna/have made money (they probably are), but 95% of the time the conversation feels like financial equivalent of a 16 year old telling you about about how amazing the Hunter S Thompson/Bukowski/Nietzche/Palhulniak book they just read was. Kill me. It's a tragedy that some weed company got TSE:CRON instead of Hootsuite.
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I loathe the existence of the "YouTuber".
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YouTubing/Streaming is cool actually because it allows people to have a platform to make $$$ through media when their circumstances (ie not rich and/or connected enough to be on traditional media) prevent them from doing so otherwise.
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Actually sir everything is terrible
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Eej posted:YouTubing/Streaming is cool actually Of all the nuclear takes that get posted in this thread, this one is the most atomic.
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Eej posted:YouTubing/Streaming is cool actually because it allows people to have a platform to make $$$ through media when their circumstances (ie not rich and/or connected enough to be on traditional media) prevent them from doing so otherwise. This is good roughly 2% of the time and bad the remaining 98%.
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PT6A posted:This is good roughly 2% of the time and bad the remaining 98%. Much like your posting.
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This is good as he’ll https://twitter.com/mikephager/status/1009521951742676992?s=21
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Weed stocks were loving awesome not because it's some massive financial game changer, but just because it was the most obvious hype bubble I've ever seen and they just printed money for a good chunk of time as long as you realized that every time the chart went vertical upwards, it was time to eject until the next lull. In early days they had a huge volume of retail traders, so it was moving almost entirely on emotion and hype from news cycles and political milestones, felt super predictable. So yeah, a lot like bitcoin honestly. Just actually in proper financial markets so there was no risk of your exchange getting "hacked" and disappearing with all your money overnight. A weed ETF could still be a decent long term hold, but at this point I suspect most of the fun and crazy moves are done with (I woke up to a +20% daily move on a stock one day, figured the app was glitching out, soon as I verified it wasn't I mashed the SELL button as hard and fast as possible) and it's just going to slowly start looking like any other established sector.
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You don't need to know anything about investing, just buy weed stocks my friends. Postess with the Mostest posted:It's a tragedy that some weed company got TSE:CRON instead of Hootsuite. I see you have heard of Cronos, partners in kosher weed ventures growing on a kibbutz
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PT6A posted:This is good roughly 2% of the time and bad the remaining 98%. So cable?
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Burn the CBC to the loving ground, gut their budget and use it to build a nice koi pond somewhere. Look at this loving headline: Pensions to be clawed back from overpaid Sears retirees  Oh also: quote:When Sears Canada closed its doors for good last fall, retirees were told the plan was underfunded by about $270 million. Pensions were to be slashed by nearly 20 per cent for an estimated 16,000 ex-Sears employees.
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https://globalnews.ca/news/4287272/jordan-peterson-sues-wilfrid-laurier-for-defamation-following-ta-case/ Peterson is suing Wilfred Laurier because quote:Comments in the meeting included a comparison of Peterson’s speech to Hitler, and a comparison of his opinion to that of an anti-trans, anti-gay, anti-women white supremacist. They also called him “academically suspect” and said he exhibited “charlatanism,” according to the unproven Statement of Claim. he hasn't been in the news much for the last month or two
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Ah, the staunch defenders of Free Speech, suing people who insult them.
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I can't possibly fathom any planet where you get to claim a private conversation that someone else recorded and disseminated is defamatory, but Howard Levitt is representing both him and Lindsay Shepherd, so...
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Best case scenario is this will get tossed out as the bullshit it is, but Peterson isn't going to be hurt financially over this at all. His lobster cult will foot the bill to own the libs.
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DynamicSloth posted:Burn the CBC to the loving ground, gut their budget and use it to build a nice koi pond somewhere. I mean the headline isn't wrong they were overpaid based on the guidelines Sears set out during the bankruptcy. People should be upset over the fact that companies pretty much have the power to claw back pensions whenever the feel like it and aren't obligated in any way to pay them out properly. Postess with the Mostest posted:https://globalnews.ca/news/4287272/jordan-peterson-sues-wilfrid-laurier-for-defamation-following-ta-case/ Shepherd couldn't tap into that sweet alt-right cashflow like everyone else so this is her last grasp at cashing out before she is reduced to just retweeting Peterson videos and having the same 30 guys reply "lol so true, are u single"
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The prime minister is apparently in town. I will update the thread on the status of his socks as the situation develops.
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I work for Provincial Government agency (in Ontario) and today I got a memo saying we have to lose our office coffee and water coolers because of the spending freeze. Thanks Doug Ford!
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Bucswabe posted:I work for Provincial Government agency (in Ontario) and today I got a memo saying we have to lose our office coffee and water coolers because of the spending freeze. Thanks Doug Ford! "Why the gently caress should civil servants get to hydrate themselves on the taxpayers' dime?"
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Bucswabe posted:I work for Provincial Government agency (in Ontario) and today I got a memo saying we have to lose our office coffee and water coolers because of the spending freeze. Thanks Doug Ford! omg you're going to have to fill your water bottle from the tap like some kind of animal
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Bucswabe posted:I work for Provincial Government agency (in Ontario) and today I got a memo saying we have to lose our office coffee and water coolers because of the spending freeze. Thanks Doug Ford! I'm sure your office will be significantly more productive now that everyone is leaving work for half an hour at a time to get coffee instead of making it in the office kitchen and going back to their desk.
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Someone's going to go to Canadian Tire tonight, buy a coffee machine and bam problem solved
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Zeeman posted:"Why the gently caress should civil servants get to hydrate themselves on the taxpayers' dime?" How is this even a thing? WTF are the carrying costs for a water cooler and a Mr. Coffee? Postess with the Mostest posted:omg you're going to have to fill your water bottle from the tap like some kind of animal What taps, why even have water service? Poop on your own time.
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Bottled water is a loving scam, destroy all water coolers, cancel all water cooler contracts. I've seen some numbers for these water and coffee contracts in the private sector and its ridiculous, it's usually poo poo coffee anyways. Like my wife's work pays a company to maintain and stock their lovely free coffee machines but its trash coffee so most people bring their own. Also our tap water is more pure and better tasting than bottled but we're trucking in these huge stupid plastic bacteria farms across the country because people expect offices to have bottled water that tastes like stale plastic. That said the totals for the whole office is like 10% of a middle manger's yearly bonus so it's peanuts, it's just stupid and wasteful. Spend a little more and get good coffee and pay a fraction for a nice built-in water filter to filter out all the impurities that don't exist in our tap water.
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flakeloaf posted:Someone's going to go to Canadian Tire tonight, buy a coffee machine and bam problem solved Which is exactly what Doug wants, yeah. Money out of your pockets instead of Joe and Seferina Hotdog tax payers paying for your piece of poo poo Alterra coffee fucker.
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Doug! Doug! Doug! (Sung to the tune of Bill Nye the Science Guy)
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My old work was just outside Winnipeg so they only had well water so they rented a couple water coolers and had a couple Bunn coffee machines and bought Starbucks coffee pouches for them. I think at most for 100 employees we were spending like 300 bucks a month lol
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Helsing posted:Since you were already willing to support racist torture apologist Sam Harris you and your girlfriend sound perfect for each other. I thought Sam Harris was just an internet atheist with a podcast? I haven't followed him at all since my own internet atheist days like ten years ago. I guess a lot of those guys veered off into Islamophobia and Western supremacy disguised as rationalism so it's not surprising that he would do the same.
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Bucswabe posted:I work for Provincial Government agency (in Ontario) and today I got a memo saying we have to lose our office coffee and water coolers because of the spending freeze. Thanks Doug Ford! I’m honestly surprised you had coffee. When I worked at DND or consulted with feds the government employees always had to pay for the lovely coffee pot coffee. It’s a completely inane decision. It costs nothing and helps people be productive.
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This is Doug's plan to boost the fitness levels of our civil service. If they really want coffee they'll have to get up and go downstairs to the bottom of their building or have to travel down the street somewhere. Extra health bonus for anyone working at Queen's Park. It's in the middle of an actual park so the next closest building is hundreds of meters away.
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Baronjutter posted:Bottled water is a loving scam, destroy all water coolers, cancel all water cooler contracts. I've seen some numbers for these water and coffee contracts in the private sector and its ridiculous, it's usually poo poo coffee anyways. Like my wife's work pays a company to maintain and stock their lovely free coffee machines but its trash coffee so most people bring their own. Also our tap water is more pure and better tasting than bottled but we're trucking in these huge stupid plastic bacteria farms across the country because people expect offices to have bottled water that tastes like stale plastic. Non government but I feel like we probably have one of "lovely free coffee machines" and for trash coffee it's passable enough given I'm just going to put sugar and milk in it. Sure has hell beats spending a few dollars on coffee every day. Vintersorg posted:Do you trust the taps in an old rear end government building? There was just some headlines a few months ago about some possible lead problems in a DoD building. (They took over some old tech campus, some old building possibly had some stale water problem or something.)
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